Richard Moore wrote:> The only part that gives me pause is his last point.
I have read (and> enjoyed) a fair amount of Max Brand and much of it
predates Hemingway,
Hammett and> Chandler. I have not read as much of his later
stories which would
include> those published under the Evan Evans name but I have
trouble imagining
Faust> changing styles as a result of reading Hammett and
the like and channeling
that> into stories published as by Evans. What I have read
of late Brand does
not> seem all that different from the Brand of the late
teens and early 1920s.

************ Gruber wrote about Max Brand in his PULP JUNGLE.
Max would sit down every morning for a couple hours and pound
out his daily quota. I'm thinking it was 16 pages. If I
recall, Max drank quite a bit, too. The amazing thing about a
lot of those pulp writers is that they could knock out
finished copy the first time.

miker

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